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The Paso del Norte region of Texas and New Mexico is experiencing many of the same crises as much of North America: high rates of diabetes and obesity and lack of healthy food. Enter La Semilla Food Center—working to transform the youth of the community to lead it into a much healthier future. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, reports....More

Carl Safina, award-winning author and host of the PBS series Saving the Ocean, has learned that the way to motivate people into saving our seas is not through gloom, doom, and scientific jargon, but through real language and accentuating the positive. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, has more from Safina....More

There are numerous paths to a sustainable future. Should we continue to take separate and unrelated approaches—or integrate and utilize them all as a whole? Dr. Hans Herren and the Millennium Institute are taking an innovative and integrated approach, as reported by Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality....More

With membership including some of the foremost pioneers in sustainable cuisine, Chefs Collaborative is a network leading the way in assisting chefs to become fully local and sustainable. Executive director Melissa Kogut sat down with Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, to talk about the organization’s vision....More

Teenagers are notorious for their zeal in philanthropy. From holding humble bake sales to organizing massive door-to-door fundraising efforts, young people are often passionate about sustainable and important causes....More

Artist Jenna Spevack created a living demonstration of the aesthetics and the practicality of growing food in cramped spaces such as those found in New York City. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, illuminates....More

North Carolina’s Center for Environmental Farming Systems—an organic agricultural research facility—demonstrates how a local and sustainable food system can be realized on the statewide, mainstream level. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, reports....More

The story couldn’t be cooler: an award-winning, highly successful, fully eco-friendly restaurant serving only locally grown, seasonal produce—right in the heart of America’s industrial agriculture belt. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, sat down with co-owner and chef Clayton Chapman to learn about this amazing venture....More

Many have the vision of creating a community-involved local and sustainable food supply. In the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, it is actually happening. Read all about their story in Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality....More

How do you convince average American consumers to truly care about medical, economic or social issues taking place halfway around the world? Better still, how do you get them to contribute? Sevenly.org addresses these issues, as reported by Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality....More

Holly Hirshberg helped solve the economic problems in her own family by planting a garden to feed them. Now, through her nonprofit organization The Dinner Garden, Holly is helping families all over America achieve the same success—by sending them seeds, free of charge. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, investigates....More

Tired of wondering which fruits and veggies were grown with pesticides, if the chickens were really treated humanely, and how far those apples had to travel to get to your cart? City dweller Novella Carpenter was and took matters into her own hands. Organic Connections, the magazine for Natural Vitality, reports....More

An expert chicken farmer, beekeeper and sustainable-food advocate who has been interviewed by NPR, the Huffington Post and numerous others, Orren Fox has one attribute that many in his position do not: he's only 14 years old....More

Chef, cooking instructor and award-winning cookbook author Peter Berley has taken his passion for locally sourced and seasonal cooking and has decided to pass it on through the unique classroom environment he has created at North Fork Kitchen. Peter sat down with Organic Connections to share his vision of the cooking school he built in a remote area of Long Island—and how he is using it to create a better world, one cook at a time....More

Bottled water has become a billion-dollar industry that, through the enormous quantity of waste in plastic bottles, has brought severe harm to the environment. At the same time, the quality of our tap water leaves much to be desired. The good news is, there is a great solution that comes at a fraction of the cost of bottled water and totally eliminates its environmental harm....More

Pesticides can harm your child as much as they hurt insects, leading environmental scientists have discovered. Children exposed either in the womb or during childhood may end up with lowered IQ scores, or ADHD, or other behavioral and emotional problems....More